- Professional Issues
Understanding Your Obligation: The New APTA Code of Ethics
5 min read
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Writing
Essays, book notes, and research on compassion, education, well-being, and care.
- Academic Innovation
- Wellbeing
What Students Gain from PT School (It's not what you think)
8 min read
Physical therapy sits at a fascinating intersection. It's simultaneously a rigorous scientific discipline and a profoundly human art. When students enter PT education, they're not just learning to apply techniques. They'...
- Academic Innovation
The Four Lenses for Critically Reflective Teaching
11 min read
How do you know if your teaching is effective? How do you even define "effective?" It's not just whether students pass tests or complete assignments, but whether they gain a deep understanding.
- Academic Innovation
Reimaninging The Directionality Of How We Teach
17 min read
Effective feedback is not a discrete event. When designed well, it transforms assignments from isolated performances into an elegant learning system with iterative cycles where students develop increasingly sophisticated...
- Academic Innovation
- AI Integration
The Feedback Abyss: Using AI Without Losing Your Soul
11 min read
In my previous essay, I introduced the concept of directionality as the fundamental architecture of learning: the idea that what matters most isn't whether you're lecturing or leading a discussion, but rather how informa...
- Academic Innovation
The Neurobiology of Belief: Why Alia Crum's Research Matters
19 min read
In 2007, a group of Italian researchers led by Dr. Fabrizio Benedetti performed what seemed like a simple experiment. They gave morphine to patients recovering from thoracic surgery. Half received the painkiller from a d...
- Book Club
Understanding by Design (2005, Expanded 2nd Edition)
12 min read
Wiggins and McTighe revolutionized curriculum design by challenging educators to work backward from desired results rather than forward from favored activities and textbook chapters. Their backward design framework, iden...
- Academic Innovation
Why Does Everyone Get Darwin Wrong?
4 min read
For more than a century, one phrase has clung stubbornly to popular culture: survival of the fittest. It appears in business books, political speeches, sports commentary, and even classroom conversations. It has become s...
- Academic Innovation
Want to Give a Great Presentation? Use Ugly Sketches
3 min read
Martin J. Eppler is Professor of Media and Communication Management at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and Director of its Institute for Media and Communication Management. He has won 12 MBA teaching awards an...
- Academic Innovation
Active Learning: The Engine of Engagement
21 min read
Picture students logging into an online anatomy lecture on a Tuesday evening. Fifty participants appear as black squares on the screen, cameras off, names barely visible. The recorded lecture plays: a teaching fellow adv...
- Academic Innovation
Teaching Through Story: Unraveling the Mystery
12 min read
I have a confession to make. I watch a lot of detective shows. Law & Order, CSI, any British mystery series I can get my hands on. And somewhere between season 3 of a police procedural and preparing to teach Advanced Cli...
- Book Club
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)
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Kuhn fundamentally challenged how we understand scientific progress. Rather than viewing science as a steady accumulation of facts building toward truth, he argued that science advances through revolutionary upheavals wh...